Academic Background

2009 - 2011 · M.Sc. in Bioinformatics. Institute of Bioinformatics - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thesis Title: Development of an algorithm to find and characterize cavities in specific regions of 3D protein structures.

Research Interests: protein informatics and drug discovery.

My main research interests are protein structure and folding. In particular, I want to elucidate how biological and structural features can mediate protein folding and function. I believe that protein informatics can be used to augment our biological knowledge. In turn, biology can be a source of inspiration to improve a multitude of computational methods such as structure prediction, protein docking, and molecular dynamics. I am also interested in applying protein informatics to optimize drug discovery pipelines.

2016 · UCB Pharma - Braine L'Alleud, BelgiumPostdoctoral Research ScientistBenchmarked several state-of-the-art antibody modelling tools. The aim of this project was to identify an optimal strategy for producing high quality models of antibodies from sequence.